ABSTRACT
Computational cognitive neuroscience lies at the intersection of computational neuroscience, which aims to describe structures and processes in the brain through computational modeling and mathematical analysis, and cognitive neuroscience, which aims to explain behavior and cognition through the identification and description of neural mechanisms. Computational cognitive neuroscience invokes the descriptive tools of the former to achieve the explanatory aims of the latter: computational models and mathematical analyses are used to identify and describe not just any structures and processes in the brain, but just those structures and processes that constitute the mechanisms of behavior and cognition.
